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pseudo_meta commented on Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets arborium.bearcove.eu/... · Posted by u/zdw

pseudo_meta · 2 months ago

Treesitter is fantastic. It has builtin support in nvim, and there are a lot of plugins that make use of it.

My favorite is nvim-treesitter-textobjects which gives you dozens of new targets for vim motions, such as a function call or the condition of a loop.

pseudo_meta commented on Nook Browser browsewithnook.com... · Posted by u/ray__

splatter9859 · 2 months ago

I need someone to explain to me, at length, at some point in my life the value proposition of Brave and what it brings to the table that other browsers do not.

For example, most of the key differentiators of Brave could be accomplished similarly in Firebox with a litany of extensions -- such as UBlock Origin as just one example -- or Privacy Badger if you'd like to be less 'heavy handed'.

The only other differentiator I see is the use of cryptocurrency as a way of compensating users for watching ads and the use of a crypto wallet; which if your not interested in such functionality is meaningless.

Yet I see very educated, competent, and intellegent people I've known for years be advocates and at some points "zealots" over the browser.

I would love to understand this. I'm honestly open to discussing this in good faith as I would like to understand the benefit here, and if I am somehow missing something will be the first to admit I was ignorant.

pseudo_meta · 2 months ago

I use Brave, and for me it's really just the least bad option.

Firefox-based browsers do not support macOS automation (AppleScript/JXA). Safari lacks features/extensions. Orion/Vivaldi had bugs any time I tried them.

From the Chrimium-based browsers I tried, Brave blocks ads, supports PWAs, the crypto stuff can be turned off, and is stable. Brave does not excite me, but it's good enough.

pseudo_meta commented on Show HN: Vibe Linking vb.lk/... · Posted by u/michaelstewart

pseudo_meta · 5 months ago

Plain and simple: It's an AI-enhanced "I'm feeling lucky".

As someone who uses the "I'm feeling lucky" regularly, this is definitely an improvement.

pseudo_meta commented on Not caring enough about money? · Posted by u/bsuki

pseudo_meta · 5 months ago

Money does not make you happy, but it can solve problems.

Don't aim to be rich, but try to have enough.

pseudo_meta commented on RSS is awesome evanverma.com/rss-is-awes... · Posted by u/edverma2

pseudo_meta · 6 months ago

Love rss, but the upside of not having an algorithm determine your content consumption quickly results in a fire hose of content.

Sadly, filtering features seem to be only available for paid subscriptions of online services, or for self-hosted solutions. Or are there solutions I am not aware of?

pseudo_meta commented on Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites? · Posted by u/indus

pseudo_meta · 6 months ago

- native browser bookmarks: things I visit regularly and want to access quickly, like the website of my bank. - read-later-links: I send it to my todo app, and read it the next day or delete it. No piling off links I never read. - topic-specific links like "tool to extract tables from PDFs" go into my note taking system (in my case Obsidian), where I can also write notes on the links properly

pseudo_meta commented on ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4 · Posted by u/iwontberude

Tiberium · 6 months ago

> However, to be able to set the reasoning effort you have to switch to the new Response API, which wasn't a lot of work, but more than just changing a URL.

That's not true - you can switch reasoning effort in the Chat Completions API - https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create . It's just that in Chat Completions API it's a parameter called "reasoning_effort", while in the Responses API it's a "reasoning" parameter (object) with a parameter "effort" inside.

pseudo_meta · 6 months ago

Oh thx, must have missed that. Guess at least that saves me some time to switch to the newer API in the future.

pseudo_meta commented on ChatGPT 5 is slow and no better than 4 · Posted by u/iwontberude

pseudo_meta · 6 months ago

API is noticeably slower for me, sometimes up to 10x slower.

Upon some digging, it seems that part of the slowdown is due to the gpt-5 models by default doing some reasoning (reasoning effort "medium"), even for the nano or mini model. Setting the reasoning effort to "minimal" improves the speed a lot.

However, to be able to set the reasoning effort you have to switch to the new Response API, which wasn't a lot of work, but more than just changing a URL.

pseudo_meta commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted

benreesman · 6 months ago

And interactive rebase. Master interactive rebase and reflog until you can do it blindfolded.

pseudo_meta · 6 months ago

I've only used reflog really to look up a hash and reset back to it. Is there anything else about it one should learn?

pseudo_meta commented on Show HN: Clauditate – Breathing exercises while Claude Code is thinking github.com/ykumards/claud... · Posted by u/ykumards

pseudo_meta · 7 months ago

"Waiting for the AI agent" is the new "waiting for code to compile," it seems.